When Sam-I-am persits in pestering a grumpy grouch to eat aplate of green eggs and ham, perseverance wins the day, teaching usall that we cannot know what we like until we have tried it! Withhis unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures andriotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children andhelping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of thewonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK's topten favourite children's authors, Seuss is firmly established as aglobal best-seller, with nearly half a billion books soldworldwide. As the first step in a major rebrand programme,HarperCollins is relaunching 17 of Dr. Seuss's best-selling books,including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, GreenEggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. In response to consumer demand, thebright new cover designs incorporate much needed guidance onreading levels, with the standard paperbacks divided into threereading strands - Blue Back Books for parents to share with youngchildren, Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on theirown, and Yellow Back Books for older, more fluent readers to enjoy.Green Eggs and Ham belongs to the Green Back Book range.

关于Sam和Knox先生的故事，Sam想把一盘绿色的鸡蛋和火腿推荐给Knox先生，可是Knox先生看到那盘绿色的火腿和鸡蛋后，总是不感兴趣。但最后，聪明的Sam想尽一切办法，终于让Knox先生同意品尝一下。这时Knox先生才发现，原来那盘鸡蛋火腿是多么好吃。这个故事告诉小朋友们要敢于尝试新鲜事物。

《绿鸡蛋和火腿》的创作源于苏斯博士和一位朋友打赌，能否用五十个单词写成一个故事。于是便有了这本脍炙人口的书。故事是容易引起孩子共鸣的熟悉话题——要不要尝试新食物。故事情节发展激烈，一个拼命劝，一个玩命躲，最后的结局出人意料。苏斯博士的语言是节奏感很强的韵文，朗朗上口，书中所用词汇很少，而且句子结构大量重复，只置换少量单词，孩子一旦记住了第一句，后边的句子很容易读出来，让孩子颇有成就感。